(Photo: Courtesy of BWG Strategy) Left to right: Chris Karl - Sonobi, Robert Brett - Viacom, Charlie Weiss - News Corp, Eric Silverstein - Reader's Digest, and Michael Persaud - Wenner Media
Chris Karl, Sonobi's CSO, attended BWG Strategy's Programmatic Revolution conference on July 9th in New York. Â He is shown here leading a panel that discussed the topic "Premium Programmatic - The Evolution of Sales in a Programmatic Era".
The panel focused on how, as programmatic media buying becomes a strategic focus for advertising holding companies, organizations have no choice but to embrace the programmatic revenue opportunity. Â As a part of the transformation, first party data has become the new currency of advertising. Â One of the challenges of this change arises from the fact that the Publisher's Ad Server was built to serve to pages, not users. Â Direct sales are still important - in the near future of the Programmatic Era, salespeople will be selling "access" instead of packages.














